History
The station was opened in 1995, as part of the "Jewellery Line" project which saw the re-introduction of cross-city services via Birmingham Snow Hill. Midland Metro services commenced in 1999, when its first (and so far only) line from Birmingham to Wolverhampton opened.
No previous station existed at this location, although it is a short distance from the previous Hockley, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1854 and closed in 1972.
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